In the current internet era when everything is going to be online, security is essential against illegal authorization. Passwords provide novel protection techniques for authentication and security services against illegal access to the resources of system. A graphical based password is best substitute to textual passwords. Humans are able to remember pictures easily. In this paper, we have proposed a new hybrid graphical password based system, which is a combination of recognition and recall

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... sed techniques. In this scheme user works via textual password by using the new advancement of authentication with graphical arrangement of rows and column that offers many advantages over the existing systems and may be more convenient for the user. Our scheme is resistant to shoulder surfing attack and many other attacks on graphical passwords. This scheme is proposed for smart mobile devices like smart phones i.e. iPod, iPhone, PDAs etc. which are more handy and convenient to use than traditional desktop computer systems.